Tag: Vertebrate paleontology

  • Nation & World

    Retracing Romer’s footsteps

    A Harvard team finds a rare fossil in Nova Scotia while retracing the footsteps of Alfred Romer, the paleontologist who identified a gap in the record from the period when animals first crawled out of the ocean and began to walk on four legs.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, dies at 72.

    7 minutes